Cosmological Probes of the Early Universe

from Tuesday, 30 June 2026 (11:00) to Thursday, 2 July 2026 (17:00)
King's College London

        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
30 Jun 2026
1 Jul 2026
2 Jul 2026
AM
11:30
Welcome (until 12:00)
08:45
Welcome (until 09:00)
09:00
Talks (until 10:20)
09:00 Curvature profiles from stochastic inflation - Eemeli Tomberg (UCLouvain)  
09:40 Primordial black holes from stochastic trees - Chiara Animali  
10:20
Coffee Break (until 10:50)
10:50
Talks (until 12:00)
10:50 Time-reversed Stochastic Inflation - Baptiste Blachier  
11:25 Large Primordial Fluctuations: Stochastic vs. Classical $\delta N$ approaches - Parth Bhargava (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG), Portsmouth)  
08:45
Welcome (until 09:00)
09:00
Talks (until 10:25)
09:00 Signatures of $10-10^4\,M_{\odot}$ halos in LISA via Stochastic Diffraction - Juan Urrutia (KBFI)  
09:40 Bridging the Inference Gap: Machine Learning across the Gravitational-Wave Spectrum - James Alvey (University of Cambridge)  
10:25
Coffee Break (until 10:55)
10:55
Talks (until 13:00)
10:55 Effective potentials and stochastic theory in de Sitter - Prof. Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College London)  
11:40 Another Brick in the Wall: Domain Wall Networks Beyond Z₂ - DHRUV PASARI (Durham University)  
12:15 TBA - Djuna Croon  
PM
12:00
Lunch (until 13:00)
13:00
Words (until 13:05)
13:05
Talks (until 15:20)
13:05 Kicking Scalar Fields in the Early Universe - Clare Burrage  
13:55 CP violating sources for electroweak baryogenesis - Graham White (Southampton)  
14:45 New tests of parity violation in the early universe: CMB polarisation experiment and calibration - Claire Rigouzzo (King's College London)  
15:20
Coffee Break (until 16:00)
16:00
Talks (until 18:00)
16:00 Gravitational Probes of Ultralight Dark Matter - Hyungjin Kim (IPhT)  
16:50 The Gravitational Wave Background as a Particle Detector - Angus Spalding (Univeristy of Southampton)  
17:25 Cosmological gravitational particle production: Scalars and fermions - Duarte Feiteira  
18:00
Event (until 22:00)
12:00
Lunch (until 13:30)
13:30
Talks (until 15:00)
13:30 Rethinking Axion Dark Matter - Prof. Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford)  
14:15 Mapping the axiverse - FRANCESCA,VALERY CHADHA-DAY  
15:00
Coffee Break (until 15:30)
15:30
Talks (until 17:40)
15:30 Lessons for Cosmology from Quantum Simulations of Gauge Theories - Tom Melia  
16:15 Vacuum decay on a tabletop - Alex Jenkins (University of Cambridge)  
17:00 From real-time simulations to experimental probes of vacuum decay - Emilie Hertig (University of Cambridge)  
19:30
Event (until 22:00)
13:00
Words (until 13:05)
13:05
Lunch (until 14:00)